End of 1920 — Beginning of 1921

## 1920

**25264**

**MEMORANDUM VIA DIRECT LINE TO M. V. FRUNZE,
COMMANDERS OF THE IV, VI AND I CAVALRY ARMIES**

*25 December 1920*

The Council of Defense has resolved to take decisive, energetic measures to unload military echelons on the roads of the Southern Transport District, especially those that have already reached stations where unloading can be carried out given the conditions of food supply and quarters. Despite all the difficulties and obstacles connected with this unloading, the Council of Defense proposes to carry it out immediately, as this is required by the catastrophic shortage of fuel and the necessity, at all costs, to deliver food to the workers' centers. The Council of Defense proposes that all organs treat this order as a combat directive and display maximum exertion of effort for its execution.

Lenin

**8400**

**MEMORANDUM TO THE REVOLUTIONARY MILITARY COUNCIL OF THE REPUBLIC**

*End of 1920, beginning of 1921*

One must every day harass relentlessly (and strike and tear into) the Commander-in-Chief and Frunze, so that they will crush and capture Antonov and Makhno*.

*M. V. Frunze, appointed after the defeat of Wrangel as commander of the forces of Ukraine and Crimea, directed the liquidation of Makhnovism and other bandit groups in Ukraine. For successful struggle against banditry, for personal bravery and courage displayed in this struggle, M. V. Frunze was awarded the Order of the Red Banner.*

*1921—1922*